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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 2876368" data-attributes="member: 1288">I'm currently running one game, and playing in another.In the one I'm running, one of the PCs is gay, and that fact played into his backstory as a conflict between the teachings of the Church and the actual attitudes of his deity. He was a paladin who was excommunicated when his superiors learned he was gay. This actually cost him his paladin status because he thought his god had rejected him. When, later in the campaign, he learned that wasn't the case--from an angel of his deity, no less--he was able to regain his paladin status. It really helped shape the character, and the campaign would have been much the poorer without it--and it was his idea and decision to include it, not mine as the DM.In the game I'm playing in, there are no gay characters of which I'm aware, but there's definitely a romantic subplot between my character and one of the others. This has no direct baring on the topic, but I bring it up to make the point that we don't necessarily assume that romantic relationships are only an NPC thing.Bottom line? While I don't see any need to make a huge deal out of the presence of gay or bisexual characters unless there's a reason to do so, I also see no reason to arbitrarily decide they don't exist. If it never comes up, it never comes up, but if it does, I can't imagine to disallow it.</blockquote>